Situations which involve extreme annoyance and consistent torment should fall under this article. It should be evident that the offender has as a main goal only to irritate and otherwise hinder the playing experience, with no apparent cause that would urge the offender to do so. By no means is harrasment to be considered solely verbal. Guiding monsters to attack another player or healing a monster that another player is attacking can and will fall under this category.

Also; racist remarks, skill spamming toward someone when told to stop, namecalling, etc. are all other forms of harrassment. Plainly stated, "If you are causing harm or discomfort to anyone for any reason, it may qualify as harrassment."

Taking items from the ground that belong to another player constitutes stealing loot, and for the most part should be self-evident; If there's any doubt as to the ownership of loot, ask your fellow player before taking action.

Monster ownership is established whenever a player attacks a monster or a group of monsters. So far as he or she is fighting, the monsters can be attributed to them. In turn, fighting should be considered as any engagement between a player and a monster or group of monsters, the importance of this being that magic attacks fall under this category.

Boss monsters, also known as MVPs, are considered free for all and thus are exempt from stealing.

Please note that the act of fighting and engaging in battle is crucial: gathering a group of monsters or being attacked by monsters while not retaliating does not assign ownership to a monster.

Ownership is lost either once the monster is dead, the owner leaves the range of the monster (this includes hiding, unless actively attacking such as with Grimtooth or Raid), or the owner stops attacking the monster with no visible explanation.

Since the trade window only allows a certain amount of items to be traded with at once, some people may choose to "drop" their items onto the ground in a trading manner. Note that unauthorized taking of said items by a third party is also considered stealing.

Account theft is also filed under this rule and is perhaps the greatest violation of it. Stealing and/or usage of another player's account is strictly prohibited.

A bot is described as any sort of device that permits a player character to battle monsters without the need for input from a user.

There will be absolutely no tolerance for their use under all circumstances. The message is clear: do not use them.

Cursing should be held to a minimum during all times when in public chat. The general level of "PG" should be accounted for as it is impossible for us to truely know the ages of those present. Attempting to dodge this rule by any means, including asterisk use and other manipulation of the word are prohibited.

Note, party and guild chats are NOT filed under this rule. It is the party and/or guild leader's decision on such matters.

All accounts are provided for the use of one distinct person; They are not to be shared with or dealt to any other person. If multiple accounts are provided for a single person, only one of these is permitted to be in use at any one time. Furthermore, the act of more than one client being in use at any time by a single person is also a severe offense.

Advertisement of another private server through any of our chat channels is strictly prohibited. Discussion of the creation of a new private server is filed under this rule. Note that merely mentioning pre-existing servers is acceptable; Tips and/or URL's to other servers is not.

Advertisement of sites and communities outside of the game are not acceptable. Advertisement of parties, guilds, items, requests for items, etc are okay.

Any attempt to lie and/or scam another player is considered a very grave offense. Specifically, when people lie to others about items or other such things to make a deal, a sale, or just plain purposely mislead them and when someone directs someone else to sites that are said to be one thing but are, infact, something malicious.

Bugs or otherwise unintended situations which can put a player at an advantage over others should in no way be used or exploited. Instead opt to report it to a GM so that the bug can be labeled and fixed.

This rule includes such acts as attempting to take a GM's name for one's own, creating a misleading name such as "GM Bob" or "Admin Bob," and/or misleading players into believing they are a part of the GM staff. This is considered a higher form of scamming, but the rule is seperate as to eliminate question.

Players have the right to speak their mind about any and all members of the GM Team as long as they speak within the bounds of truthfulness. The spreading and/or creation of slander in an attempt to defame a GM is strictly prohibited. Do not say, "such and such banned x for no reason" unless you know, without any doubt, that it is true. In addition, the previous example was an accusation rather than an opinion; Be careful.

Angelic RO is an English server and as such, public chat should consist entirely of the English language. However, this is a fairly lax rule; It is here to protect players from harassment involving other languages. Note that this applies to public chat and party/guild chat are once again at the discretion of the appropriate leader.

The use of real money (as opposed to the Zeny found in game) involving debts and/or trades for services or items in game is strictly prohibited.

Any player involved with the helping of or assisting of another player who violates any of these rules will be held just as accountable as the original offender. If someone learns a banned player is playing on the server without being unbanned, they are also to report it immediately. In addition, pleading ignorance to any or all of the rules stated above will not save your skin in the event of being caught.

If you consider that your case has been wrongly judged, it is possible to file an appeal. However, sufficient evidence or otherwise reasoning should be provided in order to warrant a retrial; It is asked to use judgement when applying for an appeal.

Upon approval, both the prosecutor and the defender will be called forth to represent their views on the case once again.

Each case is open for one appeal and one appeal only.

These do not apply to Halo server unless noted.

* Modify levels.

* Give items.

* Spawn monsters.

* Give money.

* Do mess-around variety things (disguise, brief sexchange, effects on request)

* Sexchange, namechange, guild leader change without very good reason (Applies to Halo)

* Transfer characters, money, items, or other assets to other accounts/characters (Applies to Halo)

* Make them GMs, of course (Applies to Halo)

* Ban people for them, though they can raise specific issues (Applies to Halo)

There is no punishment associated with asking a GM to do one of these things besides a "no" from the GM unless constant persistance leads to harrassment. These are simply the things we can't do for you.

Flaming is defined here as hostile and/or insulting interaction, speech, text, or posts. Flaming is generally an insult, whether veiled or blatant, toward a person or thing, and may not always be persistent, which is why the Harassment rule does not cover flaming. If you don't have something nice to say, it may indeed be better not to say it at all.

Trolling is related to flaming in that it is usually hostile and/or insulting, but is often more subtle than flaming. Trolling is an act that is instead generally meant to entice retaliation, such as flaming or dramatic replies.

In the event that someone is flaming or trolling, we encourage our members not to participate. Neither of these things are allowed on aRO, and will be dealt with as we see appropriate.

Situations which involve extreme annoyance and consistent torment should fall under this article. It should be evident that the offender has as a main goal only to irritate and otherwise hinder the playing experience, with no apparent cause that would urge the offender to do so. By no means is harassment to be considered solely verbal. Guiding monsters to attack another player or healing a monster that another player is attacking can and will fall under this category.

Also; racist remarks, skill spamming toward someone when told to stop, namecalling, etc. are all other forms of harassment. Plainly stated, "If you are causing harm or discomfort to anyone for any reason, it may qualify as harassment."

Players have the right to speak their mind about any and all members of AngelicRO as long as they speak within the bounds of truthfulness. The spreading and/or creation of slander and/or rumors in an attempt to defame, upset, or otherwise harm anyone else is strictly prohibited. Do not say such things as "Bob killed my monster because he's an idiot" or "GM Steve banned Jim for no reason" unless you know, without any doubt, that it is true, and are able to provide proof. In addition, the previous examples were accusations rather than opinions; Be careful.

Taking items from the ground that belong to another player constitutes stealing loot, and for the most part should be self-evident; If there's any doubt as to the ownership of loot, ask your fellow player before taking action.

Monster ownership is established whenever a player attacks a monster or a group of monsters. So far as he or she is fighting, the monsters can be attributed to them. In turn, fighting should be considered as any engagement between a player and a monster or group of monsters, the importance of this being that magic attacks fall under this category.

Boss monsters, also known as MVPs, are considered free for all and thus are exempt from stealing.

Please note that the act of fighting and engaging in battle is crucial: gathering a group of monsters or being attacked by monsters while not retaliating does not assign ownership to a monster.

Ownership is lost either once the monster is dead, the owner leaves the range of the monster (this includes hiding, unless actively attacking such as with Grimtooth or Raid), or the owner stops attacking the monster with no visible explanation.

In the case of monsters created by Dead Branches or similar items/skills, the original user of the item/skill has ownership of the monster by default. They may retain ownership indefinitely as long as they have not given up fighting it for at least 5 minutes. If they are actively preparing to fight the monster, they have not given up and are still in ownership. This applies to all situations, including MVPs and leaving range.

Since the trade window only allows a certain amount of items to be traded with at once, some people may choose to "drop" their items onto the ground in a trading manner. Note that unauthorized taking of said items by a third party is also considered stealing.

Account theft is also filed under this rule and is perhaps the greatest violation of it. Stealing and/or usage of another player's account is strictly prohibited.

Any attempt to lie to and/or mislead another player is considered a very grave offense. This can refer to lying about items or their effects to take advantage of someone. It can also refer to similar lies about game functions or contents with malicious or deceptive intent. The situation of someone directing others to sites that are said to be one thing but are, in fact, something malicious is also covered by this rule.

If you make a deal with someone, all involved parties are expected to uphold their respective parts of the deal, or otherwise refund each other and mutually withdraw the deal.

Bugs or otherwise unintended situations which can put a player at an advantage over others must not be used or exploited in any way. Instead opt to report it on our forum's bug tracker. However, if it is a severe and/or dangerous issue, you should report it directly to a GM. If you are unsure about the nature of something, and believe it may be a bug, you may ask a GM about it.

Suicide bombing is defined as fighting a monster, usually an MVP boss or miniboss, with intent to repeatedly die and return to fight it further, generally to kill something far above your level. This implies that no active effort to stay alive is being made, so dying repeatedly is fine if you or your group do not INTEND to repeatedly die.

This is one of the least severe offenses, and if you break it, we will simply stop you, heal the monster, and warn you not to continue. Only if you are caught doing such a thing continually will the punishment be more severe.

Please note that monsters created by Dead Branches, Bloody Branches, or similar items/skills are exempt from this rule.

A bot is described as any sort of device that permits a player character to battle monsters without use of the RO client, or otherwise, without active interaction by the user.

There will be absolutely no tolerance for their use under any circumstances. The message is clear: do not use them. Homunculus and Mercenary AIs are exempt from this rule.

Also, hacking of any kind is not to be tolerated, whether it is hacking the server or another person. It is one of the most severe possible offenses. Attempting to hack but failing is also included in this rule.

As for client editing, you are not allowed to edit any of the client's files or modify the client in any way except BGMs, Skins, Emblems, or other files and folders that are originally intended for player modification. You may not open or modify the client data files, the client executables, or any supporting DLLs.

All accounts are provided for the use of one distinct person; They are not to be shared with, dealt, or otherwise given to any other person. If multiple accounts are provided for a single person, only one of these is permitted to be in use at any one time. It is also a severe offense for a single person to be logged into any one server more than once at a time.

Note that it is all right to be logged into two different servers at the same time, as long as you are only logged into each server once at a time. It is also fine to autovend on one account while playing on another, as the autovending account is technically no longer logged in.

Cursing should be held to a minimum during all times in anything publically viewable. The general level of "PG" (not "PG-13") should be accounted for as it is impossible for us to truly know the ages of those present. Attempting to dodge this rule by any means, including partially replacing words with asterisks or otherwise modifying and/or manipulating the words, is prohibited.

Many forms of cursing are censored in public chat. However, do not assume that you should use these words frequently simply because they are censored. Additionally, you should withhold mention of inappropriate actions or body parts, as well as particularly violent language. It is also worth mentioning that simply because a word is not censored does not mean it is allowed. When in doubt, consult a GM in private.

Note that private chats, parties, guilds, etc. are NOT filed under this rule. In these cases, it is left at the discretion of the owners/leaders of these things.

Angelic RO is an English server and as such, public chat should consist entirely of the English language. However, this is a fairly lax rule; It is here to protect players from harassment involving other languages. Note that this applies to anything viewable by the general public. Private chats, parties, guilds, etc. are at the discretion of their owners/leaders.

Advertisement of sites and communities outside of the game is not acceptable. You may post on the forums or tell your friends about games that interest you personally, or similar things, provided they do not violate the Other Server Advertisement rule. Advertisement of parties, guilds, items, requests for items, etc are okay. However, please use moderation in these things.

Advertisement of another private server in any form is strictly prohibited. Discussion of the creation of a new private server is also covered by this rule. Mentioning the name of a pre-existing server is not allowed, unless the server no longer exists. Tips and/or URLs to other servers are also not allowed. You may mention other private servers in passing if no names or tips are given in any way, preventing others from knowing which other server you refer to.

The use of real money, property, and/or services (as opposed to things existing within the game) related to debts and/or trades for services, items, and/or currency in the game is strictly prohibited.

Note that commissioning another person to create artwork or similar objects for you and paying using currency, services, and/or items within the game is an exception, and is allowed. However, please use sense in such deals and remember that upholding it is a must.

This rule includes such acts as attempting to take a GM's name for one's own, creating a misleading name such as "GM Bob" or "Admin Bob," and/or misleading players into believing they are a part of the GM staff. This is considered a higher form of scamming, but the rule is separate as to eliminate question.

Any player involved with the helping of or assisting of another player who violates any of these rules will be held just as accountable as the original offender. If someone learns a banned player is playing on the server without being unbanned, we would appreciate it if they would please report it immediately. In addition, pleading ignorance to any or all of the rules stated above will not save your skin in the event of being caught.

If you consider that your case has been wrongly judged, it is possible to file an appeal. However, sufficient evidence or otherwise reasoning should be provided in order to warrant a retrial; It is asked to use judgement when applying for an appeal.

Upon approval, both the prosecutor and the defender will be called forth to represent their views on the case once again.

Each case is open for one appeal and one appeal only.

These do not apply to the Halo test server unless noted.

* Give or loan money.
* Give, loan, or drop items.
* Modify a character in any way.
* Warp a character or otherwise help a character get around faster.
* Heal, buff, or otherwise give you some kind of benefit that will make you stronger.
* Tank or otherwise assist in fighting monsters.
* Fight with or against a character.
* Spawn monsters.
* Do mess-around variety things. (Disguise, brief sex changes, effects on request, etc.)
* Change names, sexes, or guild leaders without very good reason. (Applies to Halo)
* Transfer characters, money, items, or other assets to other accounts/characters. (Applies to Halo)
   GMs may hold items or money for you, but only on their player characters.
* Ban or otherwise punish people for them, though they can raise specific issues. (Applies to Halo)
* Make someone a GM, of course. (Applies to Halo)

There is no punishment associated with asking a GM to do one of these things besides a "no" from the GM, unless constant persistance turns it into harassment. These are simply things we can't do for you.